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Education

The Secret Life of Plant Science: How and Where It Shapes Our World
By: Plantae Community
November 24, 2025
Introduction Walk outside and you’ll find them everywhere, shading your path, perfuming the air, and quietly turning sunlight into life. Plants are read more...
Plantae Presents – Figuring It Out: Creating Figures That Communicate Science
By: Plantae Community
November 21, 2025
Plantae Presents – Figuring It Out: Creating Figures That Communicate Science Featuring Eva Birtell, Helena K. Jambor, and Alicja Barbara read more...
Plantae Presents: How to Build a Productive Lab
By: Plantae Community
October 23, 2025
Plantae Presents: How to Build a Productive Lab Featuring Yuchen Long and Carl Ng When: Wednesday, November 26, 2025, at 4:30 AM PST | 7:30 PM EST | read more...

Careers

Balancing Teaching and Research Careers: Insights and Strategies
By: Plantae Community
October 27, 2025
An academic career is multifaceted. Academics combine research and teaching with mentoring, grant-writing, publishing, community service, and read more...
Staying Sane in the Lab: Tips for Mental Health Strategies for Researchers
By: Plantae Community
October 6, 2025
It’s 10:30 p.m. and your laptop is still open. The submission deadline is tomorrow, your latest experiment failed, and your email inbox is a small read more...
Inspiring Undergraduates to Get Into Plant Science
By: Plantae Community
August 25, 2025
Plant science is closely tied to our food, our environment, and even the fight against climate change. Yet, it is often overlooked by undergraduates read more...

Research Insights

Review: A complete guide to metabolomics
By: Mary Williams
December 5, 2025
This review by Rai et al., part of a focus collection on metabolism, comprehensively covers the role of metabolomics in plant biology: its history, read more...
Review: Root exudates as the architects of the rhizosphere microbiome
By: Ching Chan
December 5, 2025
The “Green Revolution” transformed global food production through the use of fertilizer, but at the expense of rising costs and reliance on read more...
Perspective: Breeding polyploid crops, or not? Insights for yield, resilience, and bioenergy futures
By: Hao Chen
December 5, 2025
For crop breeders, the deceptively simple question “is it better?” hides a web of consequences when extra chromosome sets are added (polyploidy), and read more...

Announcements and Opportunities

Community

The Science Foundation What IFS 2025: An Opportunity for Basic Research Funding and Call for Reviewers
By: Plantae Community
November 18, 2025
The Science Foundation, a new non-profit, non-partisan organization, is running an inaugural competition to fund approximately five to ten up to read more...
The Plant Cell Features March and April 2025 First Authors
By: Plantae Community
November 11, 2025
Behind the manuscripts are researchers, professors, professionals and students dedicated to advancing the field of plant science. You’ve seen our read more...
Promoting Science Communication Through Community Engagement
By: Plantae Community
November 2, 2025
Plant science has always been at the heart of human progress as it involves feeding our communities, sustaining our ecosystem, and offering solutions read more...

Industry News

Shape-shifting cell channel reveals new target for precision drugs

From small ions to large molecules, cellular gates control what can pass in and out of cells. But how one such gate, called pannexin-1 (PANX1), can handle vastly different cargo sizes has remained a long-standing mystery.Read more

Source: phys.org - breaking news microbiology Date: 2025-12-11
New research uncovers a surprisingly cheap way to farm kelp offshore

A new economic modeling tool is helping Maine kelp farmers identify cost-saving strategies with remarkable precision. By analyzing farm design, weather, vessel types, and processing methods, it highlights how decisions ripple through overall profitability. When tested, the tool demonstrated that simple redesigns and mechanization could dramatically reduce production costs. Its findings could reshape the future of offshore kelp farming.Read more

Source: sciencedaily.com AG & Food Date: 2025-12-11
This fly’s flesh-eating maggot is making a comeback. Here’s what to know

After a decades-long hiatus, new world screwworm populations have surged in Central America and Mexico — and are inching northward.Read more

Source: sciencenews.org-agriculture Date: 2025-11-12

Events

Discussion Feed

Reply To: EDI development in your institutes

It’s truly inspiring to hear about the progress in promoting EDI within institutes like BTI. The growth of dedicated EDI committees signifies a positive shift towards inclusivity and diversity. Shiqi Zhang’s experience at BTI highlights the importance of these 67 Clicker committees in driving change through hiring...Read more

Source: community.plantae.org - disscusion Date: 2025-11-24 By Gregory Casey
Reply To: Welcome! Let us know a little bit about you and your interest in plant sciences.

Hello, everyone! I’m Montserrat, a plant biologist who specializes in molecular biology and biochemistry. I study sugar transporters and plant-microbe interactions, and I’m always excited to discuss plant physiology. I also love botanical illustration and cats. I’m thrilled to join this community and eager to learn from all of you...Read more

Source: community.plantae.org - disscusion Date: 2025-10-28 By Montserrat Lopez-Coria
Reply To: Welcome! Let us know a little bit about you and your interest in plant sciences.

Hello, My name is Minus and I’m from Vietnam. So excitedRead more

Source: community.plantae.org - disscusion Date: 2025-09-04 By Minasurenai Minus

ASPB Newsfeed

What Do Plant-Themed Rubber Ducks, the Gateway Arch, and Biology Teachers Have In Common?

The Answer is the 2025 NABT Professional Development Conference! This Halloween, the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Education Committee brought a dash of green to the annual National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) Professional Development Conference in St. Louis, MO. Committee members Erin Friedman (University of Lynchburg) and Jennifer...Read more

Source: blog.aspb.org Date: 2025-12-02 By Erin Friedman
ASPB Remembers Andrew Hanson

The plant biology community worldwide will be missing a visionary leader. Dr. Andrew Hanson was C.V. Griffin Sr. Eminent Scholar in the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences since 1994. His B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Botany and his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology,...Read more

Source: blog.aspb.org Date: 2025-11-18 By Jayson Padilla
Washington on Pause: Funding, Fallout, and What’s Next

By Elizabeth Stulberg, Lewis-Burke Associates At the beginning of the new fiscal year, Wednesday, October 1, with no new funding bills or continuing resolution passed by Congress, many agencies within the federal government suspended their services. This is known as a government shutdown. It will end when Congress passes funding...Read more

Source: blog.aspb.org Date: 2025-10-23 By Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC

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